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Grand Union: From Scranton Roots to National Supermarket Chain
The Grand Union Co. rises as the nation’s second oldest food chain, founded in 1872 in Scranton and expanding to Seattle by 1904. It pioneered neighborhood stores, added meat departments in the 1920s, broadened merchandise in the 1930s, and postwar shifted rapidly into supermarkets, converting and opening larger stores across regions.
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Grand Union Food Store
Cyrus Jones
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